Greene emerged as one of the Devils' top defensemen when Paul Martin was sidelined for 59 games with a fractured left forearm. He leads all defensemen on the team with 34 points on six goals and 28 assists.

Greene and Mottau are part of an unsung Devils' defense that is tied with Boston for allowing the fewest goals in the NHL with 180. Mottau is third among Devils' defensemen in ice time (behind Greene and Martin) with an average of 22:21 per game. He has two goals and 14 assists in 74 games.

In addition, former Devil Bruce Driver was presented the Dr. John J. McMullen Service to New Jersey Hockey award. The award is named for the late Devils owner, who brought professional ice hockey to the Garden State in 1982. It has been presented annually since 1984 by the Devils to an individual or individuals who have supported amateur hockey throughout the state.

Driver, 47, played 11 of his 14 NHL seasons for the Devils. He has served for the last 12 years as director of the team's alumni association.

In addition to his role with the Devils, he has served as head coach of Morristown-Beard School’s girls’ ice hockey team since 2000-01. For 10 seasons, he has volunteered as the head coach for both the Montclair (NJ) hockey club’s house and travel teams.

***A programming note for those who follow the Devils on television and radio. Devils radio play-by-play announcer Matt Loughlin will fill in on the MSG Plus broadcast of the team's game in Carolina Saturday night because Mike Emrick will be away for Sunday's NBC telecast and Steve Cangialosi is ill. Radio color commentator Sherry Ross will do the radio play-by-play (on WFAN-AM 660) for the second time this season. Ross made history on Nov. 25 when she became the first woman to do the radio play-by-play for a full NHL game in the U.S. for the Devils' home game against Ottawa.

About

TOM GULITTI has covered the New Jersey Devils for The Record since 2002. Prior to that, he covered the New York Rangers for four years. Gulitti joined The Record in 1998 after six years at The North Jersey Herald News. He graduated from Binghamton University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric-Literature.